A telescope larger than the Brandon schoolhouse has a large tower with ladders attached to the side of it and a tube that forms an angle with the schoolhouse. Another mechanical device is attached to the one- story schoolhouse.

View of the Coal Creek School House at 800 Telluride Street, Aurora (Adams County), Colorado. The one room school has white wood-siding building with a gray slate roof. The entrance is protected by a portico. A post-and-rail wood fence surrounds...

Coal Creek Schoolhouse is an excellent example of a one-room prairie schoolhouse. The original school was located along Coal Creek, but it burned to the ground in the late 1920s. The current building replaced it in 1926. The schoolhouse was donated...

Schoolchildren pose in two rows in front of the Basalt schoolhouse in Basalt, Colorado. Ten boys and girls sit on a bench; older boys and girls stand in a back row. A man in a dark suit and a bow tie stands in the background. The girls wear...

View of the Stringtown Schoolhouse located just south out Leadville in the ghost town of Stringtown, Lake County, Colo. Built in 1902, the simple, single-story clapboard sided schoolhouse has a central bell tower capped by a flagpole. All windows...

View of the Coates Creek School House located on D S Road, 16 miles west of Glade Park, Mesa County, Colo. The simple, one story, log cabin structure is located near the border between Colo. and Utah. Built in 1919, it is the only surviving rural...

View of the old Black Forest schoolhouse located at 6770 Shoup Road, Black Forest (El Paso County), Colorado. The school closed in 1945 and became a county maintenance facility. The chinked log cabin with white shutters is on a new cement...

View of a schoolhouse (1922) in Gerald Ford Park, Vail (Eagle County), Colorado. This one room, hewn log schoolhouse was built in 1922 once served as the Gore Creek Museum and is now used by the Nature Center and the Alpine Garden. The building has...

Children holding hats, lunch pails and baskets pose with their teachers in front of a frame schoolhouse, Petersburg (later became Englewood), Arapahoe County, Colorado. The schoolhouse has double hung windows, shutters, doors with transoms, a...

probably when this image was first taken.; The mining town of Caribou sits along the base of Caribou Hill in Boulder County, Colorado. The schoolhouse is in the left foreground on Sherman Street with three long log poles propped against one side...

The one-story gable-roofed brick schoolhouse at Empire, Clear Creek County, Colorado, sits on a hill. On the front of the building a sign beneath the decorative shingles under the eaves reads, "Empire School," and a sign on the shingled porch over...

View of the Chivington School located in the town of Chivington, Kiowa County, Colo. Built in 1918, the abandoned two-story brick schoolhouse has a simple, central pediment over the main entry with a sign reading "19 Chivington School 18." The...

A large group of men, women and children stand in front of the schoolhouse in Idaho Springs, Colorado. The schoolhouse has a T-shaped floor plan and crossed, medium gables. A gabled bell tower tops the roof on the near side, and one chimney is on...

The Dexter schoolhouse in Dexter, Colorado, in Grand County is a narrow one-room, log schoolhouse with a narrow gable and two entry doors. Weeds and brush grow around the building, and rolling hills are in the background.

Several children play in the snow in front of the old Rock Schoolhouse, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado. Built in 1883 out of fieldstone, it was the first permanent school in town and operated until 1911, when a larger brick schoolhouse...

View of Georgetown, Colorado, north up the valley from Leavenworth Mountain, with Saxon, Griffith, and Republican Mountains; shows the north-south streets of Argentine, Rose, and Taos. Buildings include the Masonic Lodge, the Fish Block, the...

The large Gregory-Buell Mill complex is in the foreground in this view of Blackhawk in Gilpin County, Colorado. Several businesses face Gregory Street in the left foreground, including "The Colorado Shoe" and the Black Hawk Bakery, which has an...

View looking northwest, of Eldora, Colorado, includes the central business district, residences, and the schoolhouse. Streets include Eldorado Avenue, and Klondike Avenue. Lower Eldorado Mountain is to the north.

A wood frame schoolhouse on a hill in Alice, Colorado, was built in 1915 and operated until 1939. A small boy stands in front of the school and an automobile is parked on the side of the building. The schoolhouse has a hipped roof with a triangular...

View of a schoolhouse in Gas Creek, Colorado; features a hipped roof with a front gable, a hipped bell tower, brick walls, two single leaf doors with transoms, double hung windows, and a concrete foundation; sign beneath the gable reads: "Gas Creek...

Native American (Tewa) children and a white woman pose in front of a schoolhouse, Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. The teacher, Miss Anne Engle, stands on the end of two formed rows; smaller children are seated in front of a row of older children....

View west up Clear Creek valley shows the schoolhouse in Silver Plume, Colorado. Features of the school include: brick stringcourses, rusticated sandstone arches over the main entrance and windows, deeply bracketed eaves, a central gable, a hipped...

Two men stand outside the dilapidated wood frame gabled schoolhouse in Caribou, a mining town in Boulder County, Colorado. The structure leans away from its stone foundation and is missing some of its clapboard siding, wood shingles, and glass...

Group of students pose in front of the old schoolhouse at the corner of Columbia and Townsend Avenues, Telluride, Colorado. Girls wear dresses with hemlines just below their knees; some boys wear suits. Back row: Glenn (Babe) Hopkins, Albert Homer,...

View of the Old Rock Schoolhouse located at 504 Maroon Ave. in Crested Butte, Colorado. Built in 1893, the two-story, coursed, rough-faced stone building has a central, square front bay with separate boys' and girls' entrances on either side. The...

View of a schoolhouse and fields on the Dawson Ranch in Routt County, Colorado; at left, small schoolhouse with bell tower at the juncture of two dirt roads; fenced fields with baled hay and stacking implement at mid-ground; brush and utility poles...

Students and teachers pose in front of the 1882 schoolhouse, Poncha Springs, Chaffee County, Colorado. The brick school building features a cross gable, stone quoins and trim, a chimney and a belltower.

Five people stand outside the Brandon Schoolhouse in Brandon, Colorado (Kiowa County). The one-story, wood-frame structure has a gable and chimney. Weeds and other vegetation grow around the building. The three women, man, and boy stand in front of...

View along Seventh (7th) Avenue, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado, shows the schoolhouse with 1893 addition and two identical frame houses with front gables and side porch entrances. A banded cliff is in the background.

View of historic structures at the Clear Creek History Park located at 11th and Arapahoe Streets, Golden, Colo. Many of the buildings found at the park were originally from the Pearce Ranch, located in Golden Gate Canyon. They were moved to their...

The first schoolhouse in Silver Plume, Colorado, was constructed around 1872, and burned in 1893. Many young children and their teacher (seated at right), are arranged in a semicircle near the building. Most of the children are holding open their...

Students occupy wooden desks as their teacher stands in the back of a room in the schoolhouse in Ft. Lupton, Colorado. The desks are near a large pot-bellied stove in the center of the room, and an electric light hangs from the ceiling.

View of a frame building identified as a schoolhouse with a gabled roof, a brick chimney, side windows, and gutters in probably Hahns Peak (Routt County), Colorado. Shows a barrel and a broom beside the school building. A fence and livestock are...

View of Ouray (Ouray County), Colorado. Frame and brick buildings include the Beaumont Hotel and the Ouray Public schoolhouse. Shows The Amphitheater, Cascade Mountain and Cascade Falls, and snow on the San Juan Mountains in the distance.

Men and women pose beside a Denver & Rio Grande engine number "262" and freight car number "2624" in Kokomo (Summit County), Colorado. Shows the schoolhouse, frame houses with porches, and the Denver & Rio Grande railroad depot. Some of the men and...